Word: trivial
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...short survey of recent adjustments to college life should suffice: in-suite fireplaces sealed up, the House lottery completely randomized, and an unspoken tolerance of underage drinking imperiously overridden. Even these more trivial, yet preciously guarded, traditions of Harvard life have garnered the wrath of the postmodern social engineers who run this University...
...would provide “a proactive way to tell seniors the ten things they might have missed if they haven’t been told,” Winnie says. The simplicity of such solutions emphasizes one of the most frustrating aspects of the situation: ultimately, there are trivial problems with unnecessarily complicated consequences. “The number [of students studying abroad] is not in the thousands,” Winnie admits, “But that is a lot of people who could have been Class Marshal...
...These are issues that will put the E.U. to test," said one E.U. diplomat in Lisbon, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "They will make much of the discussions here seem like a trivial, academic exercise taking place in an ivory tower...
This isn’t the first year the Yard has been churned up in the name of learning, but maybe, hopefully, this year the Administration will recognize the trivial nature of this pedagogical endeavor. Since the students in this class will be obliged to finish out the term in Anthropology 1130, we all can at least pray they find some shiny beads or seashells. After that, I say we let those Indian spirits rest in peace...
...Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The book’s main chapter categorizes Facebook users into one of five stereotypes. Among them are “newsers,” who use Facebook as a liveblog to document their most trivial actions; “self-promoters,” who exaggerate their features to make them appear more exciting; and “performers,” who treat their profiles as “avant-garde works of art.” Besides describing the site?...